Balzac Versions

Here is a list of the changes made in previous versions of Balzac, since its inception a few years ago.

Version 1.0 b29

Released 18 October 2007

  • Fixed bug in whitelister dealing with numeric HTML attributes
  • Removed spurious status messages in Leopard
  • Worked around date parsing bug in Leopard causing inbox to display as empty

Version 1.0 b28

Released 14 October 2007

  • Fixed bug introduced in b27 meaning messages could not be sent with ‘Plain Text’ style
  • Fixed bug meaning Trashed messages were showing up in other views
  • Spam and Trash views can now have useful sub-views

Version 1.0 b27

Released 10 October 2007

  • Relaxed Whitelister slightly to allow attributes like bgcolor and colspan
  • Whitelister now deals better with various types of malformed HTML, and removes spurious xml declarations
  • Window close button now reflects edited state of drafts
  • Textile now off by default in plain text messages
  • Fixed bug meaning messages tagged Mailing List and Spam were not shown in Spam view
  • Fixed bug with display of bracketed urls
  • Removed rubygems require in tagger.rb
  • Automatically generated Mailing List view now shows messages correctly
  • Subviews of Mailing Lists view now show messages
  • Fixed bug in plain text rendering of bolded text with punctuation characters between them
  • Now adds emails with company name only or no names to address book auto-complete list
  • Fixed bug introduced in b26 where saved drafts not replaced when edited after restart of app
  • Fixed styling issue causing links in message bodies to be underlined

Version 1.0 b26

Released 04 October 2007

  • Fixed bug rendering returns in some plain text messages
  • Summary now replaces newlines with spaces
  • Saved drafts now restore styling
  • Saved drafts now restore signature setting
  • New messages no longer have a tab character at end in compose view
  • Fixed bug causing instability on attempting to edit connect minutes in new prefs dialog
  • Replying to ‘To do’ message removes ‘To do’ tag
  • Fixed bug when pressing cancel twice in find panel
  • Fixed bug in system version check
  • Fixed CPU usage caused by unreleased timer
  • Added table rows to permitted tags
  • Fixed bug rendering new lines and multiple line quotes in replies
  • Added tagging of outgoing messages
  • Reply-to header field now respected for mailing list messages
  • Auto-complete emails no longer prefixed with a blank space if no name in address book

Version 1.0 b25

Released 30 September 2007

  • Add a sheet on closing draft window – Discard or Save Draft
  • Fixed bug assigning new port to Receive or Send port in Accounts prefs

Version 1.0 b24

Released 29 September 2007

  • Now requires OS X 10.4.0 or higher – due to various dependencies on 10.4 tech (Ruby, transitions, DOM)
  • Can now compose using embedded textile or eruby commands, or even just HTML
  • Added snippets (excerpts of text which can be reused), and thus signatures
  • Added Delete Spam Messages menu item
  • Added Delete Trash Messages menu item
  • Significantly faster when tagging or deleting multiple messages
  • Added French localization, with help from Wtfigo – all mistakes are mine
  • Imports mail from Tiger mail.app ‘mbox’ format, as well as real mbox – drag and drop from Mail.app folders
  • Fixed mail export bug with quoted messages
  • Fixed bug in send code meaning long urls not wrapped
  • Opening saved drafts no longer loses formatting
  • Fixed bug with date display caused by stale cache for messages several days old
  • Fixed some cosmetic styling bugs for incoming messages
  • HTML Whitelisting now implemented
  • Added completely revised help files
  • Added Sparkle support
  • Similar button now strips Re: etc from subjects
  • Similar button now undoes selection if pushed twice

Version 1.0 b23

Released 04 December 2006

  • Now imports Mail.app version 2 .mbox files as well as version 1 .mbox via drag and drop
  • Now produces log file (visible via console window)
  • Fixed bug remembering passwords when first run
  • Improved auto-update code
  • Fixed bug when sending Spam messages with certain encodings to SpamSieve
  • Fixed bug – disabled accounts were being included in auto-connect after sleep

Version 1.0 b22

Released 01 August 2006

  • Mail view styles and message view styles are now independent
  • Fixed crashing bug when sending with SSL enabled

Version 1.0 b21

Released 01 March 2006

  • Added support for SpamSieve as a Spam filter
  • Added option to turn off cache and maximum size for cache
  • Text now set to normal style following a head or quote in outgoing message
  • Text can now be styled bold or italic in outgoing messages
  • Fixed bug when find panel requested multiple times
  • Fixed problem sending messages after internet connection interrupted
  • Fixed bug sorting by from in lists with messages having only email in from field
  • Some GPG support added, but disabled for now

Version 1.0 b19

Released 01 February 2006

  • Now a Universal Binary
  • Now connects automatically when the network comes up after sleep
  • Uses new style Unified Toolbar
  • Fixed bug handling mailto urls
  • Fixed bug with export of single message
  • Fixed bug in select all
  • Fixed bug with selecting a word by double clicking on OS X 10.4

Version 1.0 b18

Released 01 February 2006

  • Added registered user string to about box
  • Changed SMTP code so that authentication is not required with blank username

Version 1.0 b17

Released 01 February 2006

  • Fixed bug with cancel button not working if clicked at bottom
  • Changed ‘Flavours’ to tags and removed US localisation
  • Fixed bug in auto-complete if part of name was deleted
  • Fixed bug meaning messages weren’t removed from the server
  • Fixed bug in preferences which reset default account when fields changed
  • Limited History saved to last 7 days (display not yet done)
  • Fixed some problems displaying inline attachments in HTML messages
  • Fixed bad handling of gmail message parts incorrectly labelled as ‘inline’
  • Save as image now works from image attachment view

Version 1.0 b15

Released 01 February 2006

  • Now requires OS X 10.3.9 or above
  • Uses search view rather than combo box
  • Fixed recipient list selection problem on 10.4
  • Fixed cosmetic bug in table highlight
  • Added back to list button to message view
  • Dragging messages to views adds tags if applicable
  • Delete after days field in prefs now enabled immediately after click on checkbox
  • Fixed handling of Authentication failure on receive
  • Connect With menu now updated on Account deletion in preferences
  • Now remembers most recently used Recipient addresses for autocomplete
  • Fixed problems with History caused by NSArrayController change in 10.4

Version 1.0 b14

Released 01 February 2006

  • URL auto-linking improved when displaying messages
  • Attachment names containing dash no longer truncated on save
  • Shift select now always works in list view
  • Mailboxes now saved after downloads
  • Table selection now updates when Accounts deleted in Preferences
  • Auto-scroll in list now works with Webcore 1.3
  • Drag into webview now works with Webcore 1.3
  • Feedback for downloading changed
  • Select similar only adds tag if there is one
  • Fixed handling of multipart/mixed messages
  • Delete messages on server enabled, including delete after n days
  • Account import now updates popup and removes blank account
  • Updating tag colours now updates browser view immediately
  • ‘None’ entry in tags menu works
  • Deleting messages from Trash now deletes definitively
  • History now saved on quit
  • Quoted text no longer converted to blockquote in Source view style
  • Text selection disabled in list view to improve clicking with Webcore 1.3
  • Added SSL suport for send/receive and ports in preferences

Version 1.0 b13

Released 01 January 2006

  • Extended expiration date of beta

Version 1.0 b12

Released 17 December 2005

  • Added Zonic BugReporter for reporting crash information (since removed)
  • URLS no longer wrapped if they contain non-alphanumeric characters (eg ’-’)
  • Fixed bug with menus not responding when a view with no messages was selected
  • Message style now set correctly to last used for replies
  • History menu now clears correctly

Version 1.0 b11

Released 17 February 2005

  • Tag searches now case-insensitive
  • Dates in messages now displayed in local time zone

Version 1.0 b10

Released 17 February 2005

  • SMTP with no authentication now permitted

Version 1.0 b9

Released 17 February 2005

  • HTML messages with inline image attachements now properly displayed
  • URLs in outgoing HTML messages now have HTML links generated
  • Help files now opened at specific pages
  • Americanised Help files

Version 1.0 b8

Released 17 February 2005

First public release